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Originally Posted by rp001
One thing for sure...This certainly is not "world class medical care"...let the flames begin
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You won't get flamed by me. It is a very big problem.
My husband calls me a doctor snob. I think that it is because I have been spoiled by having some excellent facilities near where we lived.
And having never been old before this is the FIRST time I have encountered some of the pesky and annoying and even worrisome stuff that comes with age.
The opportunity does present itself right here to have a world class hospital and medical community that specializes in geriatrics, health issues pertaining to aging, but just how you attract that kind of facility and how it would be funded is beyond my knowledge. I know it doesn't just drop from the sky.
Boston's Childrens is the number one Childrens medical facility in the entire country by all determining factors and proudly Cincinnati Childrens is number three, but I don't know how they got to be so good.
The bottom line somewhere is always the money and the funding and the reseach money too, maybe...I don't know
Another issue that is probably a factor in the problem is that the phenomenal growth in this area has happened mostly in the last ten years and we may be still flying under the radar of the folks who are drawn to make medical history by coming here and helping us.
I don't know. It is a problem and it is frightening and that is the reason that this thread is so intense and heated.
But sometimes it isn't anyone's fault. And sometimes there are no easy fixes.